In those days they shall say no more, according to a proverb which had been coined during the years of tribulation in Israel, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge, the meaning being, of course, that the transgressions of the fathers were visited upon the innocent children, a statement intended to express that they suffered the evil consequences of their fathers' sins rather than of their own.

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